Hot Off the Presses

"The Peak: a university newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a news section run the only way...

Close to the Edge: Part Two

Beyond Worlds The year was 1980. Fred Brathwaite, an art student at New York’s Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, had just returned to the borough...

Close to the Edge: Part One

The revolution will be no re-run, brothers. The revolution will be live.” – Gil Scott-Heron The Master Builder Moses led the Israelites across the Red Sea, parting...

Dusting for Prints

In our Orwellian modern era of NSA surveillance and spyware, it’s hard to blame tech users for worrying about their online privacy. In an...

Left of the Dial

The CJSF offices seem out of time. Amid shag carpeting, countless stickers and posters, and a couple of well lived-in couches, one has to...

“M” is for Misogyny

After hearing the chant used by the students of the Sauder School of Business at the UBC FROSH week, my first reaction was, naturally,...

Hypocrisy and the Great American Game

In the Line of Fire The thirtieth overall pick in the 2008 NFL draft, tight end Dustin Keller, had a solid and somewhat productive career...

Writer’s Block

Introduction It’s mid-July. I’m sitting in my apartment, sipping my mediocre cup of coffee, scrolling through the “Current Auditions List” on the Vancouver Public Library...

Superheroes and Sexism

Though many strong arguments exist against the sexist representation of women in comic books, the most immediate of them all may well be the...

Campus Cuisine

When you stay up all night cramming and have to pick between showering for the first time in two days or making a lunch,...